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Session: Advocating for Public Health: Successful Models for Enacting Policy, Regulations and Legislation
4117.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Advocating for Public Health: Successful Models for Enacting Policy, Regulations and Legislation
This session will describe how to translate community-based participatory research into advocacy strategies, apply lessons learned from the Turning Point Act experience to state legislative reform efforts and identify the barriers involved in establishing a county health department.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)translate community-based participatory research into advocacy strategies; 2)apply lessons learned from the Turning Point Act experience to state legislative reform efforts and 3)identify the barriers involved in establishing a county health department.
Moderator(s):Sarah Stone-Francisco, MPH
12:30 PMUsing a community health partnership to influence policy makers to establish/sustain a county health department in a rural, underserved South Texas border county  [ Recorded presentation ]
Julie Ann St. John, MA, MPH, Michael Felix, James N. Burdine, DrPH, Monica L. Wendel, MA, MPH
12:45 PMAn update on the Steps to a HealthierUS cooperative agreement program  [ Recorded presentation ]
Tomas Rodriguez, MA
1:00 PMFunding for prevention: Successful strategies for increasing public health in state budgets  [ Recorded presentation ]
Eric Weltman, MA, Geoffrey Wilkinson, MSW
1:15 PMModernizing public health law: The impact of the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act on state legislative reforms  [ Recorded presentation ]
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, Kristine Gebbie, DrPH, RN, James Hodge, JD, LLM, Lawrence Gostin, JD, LLD
1:30 PMPublic health advocacy: Working with underserved communities, public health practitioners and students to create policy and environmental change  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joel S. Meister, PhD, Professor, Jill De Zapien
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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